This standard is maintained by XBRL International, an international non-profit consortium of approximately 450 major companies, organizations, and government agencies around the world. It is an open standard, provided free of license fees, and is already being used in numerous countries.
Combined with âstep-upâ authentication, context-based authentication optimizes a layered approach to access security by assessing user login attributes and matching them against pre-defined security policies. When security policies are met, users are granted immediate access.
AuthenticationContext does the following: 1  Starts the authentication flow by redirecting the user agent to the TID authorization endpoint. The user authenticates and consents, if consent is required. 2  The TID authorization endpoint redirects the user agent back to the AuthenticationContext with an authorization code.